Bruce Pearl is a better basketball coach than Kevin O'Neill

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JZVOL said:
one less than Pearl?
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O'neill did win a conference title at Marquette.

I know that this will bring in Pearl's titles at UMW (2 regular season, 2 tourney {two of those in the same year}), but I thought I'd mention it.
 
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First&Tenn said:
O'neill did win a conference title at Marquette.

I know that this will bring in Pearl's titles at UMW (2 regular season, 2 tourney {two of those in the same year}), but I thought I'd mention it.
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Fair enough. Still nothing changes.
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HendersonVol said:
He had that luxury and left on his own accord. 14 years. He's running out of time.

Pearl doesn't have the failures on his resume that O'Neill does. Does O'Neill have the successes on his resume that pearl does?
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He was all but forced out.
 
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tvols75 said:
So by your third year, you think a good coach would win 5 games?
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He took Houston's garbage and won 15 and took them to the NIT. If he had still been here after he stocked the cupboard, he would have done at least as well as Green.
 
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emainvol said:
He took Houston's garbage and won 15 and took them to the NIT. If he had still been here after he stocked the cupboard, he would have done at least as well as Green.
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You didn't answer the question. Do you think a good coach in his 3rd year at a program would only win 5 games.
 
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HendersonVol said:
Define winning basketball coach.

I would guess that before Pearl that definiton would have included multiple sweet sixteens and SEC championships.
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Is that what I think a coach should accomplish at UT in a reasonable timeframe? Yes. People act as if hiring a basketball coach is some incredibly tough task. It's not. But for Doug Dickey's classic "I can't hire the coach from Oral Roberts, our fans won't stand for that" brilliance and taking a phone call from Tim Floyd in Kevin Stallings' kitchen, Buzz Peterson and Bruce Pearl never see Knoxville. Tennessee would be in far better position then they are now and would have been there for a long time.
 
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emainvol said:
He took Houston's garbage and won 15 and took them to the NIT. If he had still been here after he stocked the cupboard, he would have done at least as well as Green.
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He didn't even have Houston's garbage. He could have won if all those players had stayed. If you remember, most any player that could play left the program. He had to bring in very marginal Junior College players to field a team.
 
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HendersonVol said:
No he wasn't.
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Come on, Dickey hated him and basketball and made it pretty clear to KO. He may have left on his own accord, but he certainly wasn't made to feel welcome or supported. Would you stay in a job like that?
 
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emainvol said:
Come on, Dickey hated him and basketball and made it pretty clear to KO. He may have left on his own accord, but he certainly wasn't made to feel welcome or supported. Would you stay in a job like that?
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He hasn't been welcomed at any job, wonder why?
 
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HendersonVol said:
Good coaches don't win 5 games in a year. Period.
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Bill Self only had 6 wins one year. Jay Wright and Rick Pitino both had years in which they only won 8 games. Coach K had a year where he only won 9. Lute Olson had years of 10 and 11.

Anybody know what all these guys had in common?
 
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emainvol said:
Bill Self only had 6 wins one year. Jay Wright and Rick Pitino both had years in which they only won 8 games. Coach K had a year where he only won 9. Lute Olson had years of 10 and 11.

Anybody know what all these guys had in common?
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Their worst season is not as bad as Kevin O'Neill?
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To add to that impressive list: Mike Montgomery had a 7 win year, Tom Crean had a 6 win year. We could go on with this.
 
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HendersonVol said:
Pitino- I think you are wrong
Self- his first year coaching.
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You are correct, it wasn't Pitino. I had Pitino on the brain and was looking for someone else.

It was Ben Howland with 7 that I found in the midst of all the bad season searching.
 
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